scholarly journals Unconscious processing of facial attractiveness: invisible attractive faces orient visual attention

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao-Min Hung ◽  
Chih-Hsuan Nieh ◽  
Po-Jang Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Unconscious Processing

scholarly journals Visual attention during the evaluation of facial attractiveness is influenced by facial angles and smile

2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seol Hee Kim ◽  
Soonshin Hwang ◽  
Yeon-Ju Hong ◽  
Jae-Jin Kim ◽  
Kyung-Ho Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Fixation Time ◽  
Facial Esthetics ◽  
Attractive Face ◽  
Tracking Device ◽  
Face Task

ABSTRACT Objective: To examine the changes in visual attention influenced by facial angles and smile during the evaluation of facial attractiveness. Materials and Methods: Thirty-three young adults were asked to rate the overall facial attractiveness (task 1 and 3) or to select the most attractive face (task 2) by looking at multiple panel stimuli consisting of 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, and 90° rotated facial photos with or without a smile for three model face photos and a self-photo (self-face). Eye gaze and fixation time (FT) were monitored by the eye-tracking device during the performance. Participants were asked to fill out a subjective questionnaire asking, “Which face was primarily looked at when evaluating facial attractiveness?” Results: When rating the overall facial attractiveness (task 1) for model faces, FT was highest for the 0° face and lowest for the 90° face regardless of the smile (P < .01). However, when the most attractive face was to be selected (task 2), the FT of the 0° face decreased, while it significantly increased for the 45° face (P < .001). When facial attractiveness was evaluated with the simplified panels combined with facial angles and smile (task 3), the FT of the 0° smiling face was the highest (P < .01). While most participants reported that they looked mainly at the 0° smiling face when rating facial attractiveness, visual attention was broadly distributed within facial angles. Conclusions: Laterally rotated faces and presence of a smile highly influence visual attention during the evaluation of facial esthetics.

scholarly journals How relationship status and sociosexual orientation influence the link between facial attractiveness and visual attention

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. e0207477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Mitrovic ◽  
Juergen Goller ◽  
Pablo P. L. Tinio ◽  
Helmut Leder
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Sociosexual Orientation

The effects of face attractiveness onpre-selective recruitment

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Pansu ◽  
Michel Dubois
Keyword(s):  
Facial Attractiveness ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Relational Skills

The aim of this study was to determine how facial attractiveness of applicants influences pre-selective evaluation in two different occupational fields (one relational and one non-relational). A total of 224 participants (working individuals and students) were asked to judge a fictitious applicant based on a resumé (applicant’s qualifications: highly vs. less qualified) and a photograph (attractive vs. unattractive). Overall, the results showed that facial-attractiveness effects on interpersonal judgments are not absolute, and that their occurrence partly depends on the situation in which the judgments are made. Regardless of occupational field, when the applicants were highly qualified (whether attractive or unattractive) they were systematically judged positively, whereas in the case of less qualified applicants, facial attractiveness differentially affected judgments in the two occupational fields: less-qualified but attractive applicants were only judged more favorably than less-qualified and unattractive ones when the job involved relational skills.

Visual Spatial Attention in Migraine Sufferers in Postictal and Interictal Phases: An Event-Related Potential Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.H. de Koning ◽  
J.C. Woestenburg ◽  
M. Elton
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Cortex ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Migraine Attack ◽  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Significant Enhancement ◽  
Pathophysiological Mechanism ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Visual Spatial Attention ◽  
Visual Spatial

Migraineurs with and without aura (MWAs and MWOAs) as well as controls were measured twice with an interval of 7 days. The first session of recordings and tests for migraineurs was held about 7 hours after a migraine attack. We hypothesized that electrophysiological changes in the posterior cerebral cortex related to visual spatial attention are influenced by the level of arousal in migraineurs with aura, and that this varies over the course of time. ERPs related to the active visual attention task manifested significant differences between controls and both types of migraine sufferers for the N200, suggesting a common pathophysiological mechanism for migraineurs. Furthermore, migraineurs without aura (MWOAs) showed a significant enhancement for the N200 at the second session, indicating the relevance of time of measurement within migraine studies. Finally, migraineurs with aura (MWAs) showed significantly enhanced P240 and P300 components at central and parietal cortical sites compared to MWOAs and controls, which seemed to be maintained over both sessions and could be indicative of increased noradrenergic activity in MWAs.

“The Unconscious” in Current Psychology

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Norman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Verbal Report ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Unconscious Processing ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Intermediate States ◽  
Definition Of

A series of vignette examples taken from psychological research on motivation, emotion, decision making, and attitudes illustrates how the influence of unconscious processes is often measured in a range of different behaviors. However, the selected studies share an apparent lack of explicit operational definition of what is meant by consciousness, and there seems to be substantial disagreement about the properties of conscious versus unconscious processing: Consciousness is sometimes equated with attention, sometimes with verbal report ability, and sometimes operationalized in terms of behavioral dissociations between different performance measures. Moreover, the examples all seem to share a dichotomous view of conscious and unconscious processes as being qualitatively different. It is suggested that cognitive research on consciousness can help resolve the apparent disagreement about how to define and measure unconscious processing, as is illustrated by a selection of operational definitions and empirical findings from modern cognitive psychology. These empirical findings also point to the existence of intermediate states of conscious awareness, not easily classifiable as either purely conscious or purely unconscious. Recent hypotheses from cognitive psychology, supplemented with models from social, developmental, and clinical psychology, are then presented all of which are compatible with the view of consciousness as a graded rather than an all-or-none phenomenon. Such a view of consciousness would open up for explorations of intermediate states of awareness in addition to more purely conscious or purely unconscious states and thereby increase our understanding of the seemingly “unconscious” aspects of mental life.

Visual Attention: Fitting It All Together

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-503
Author(s):  
Kyle R. Cave
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention

Novel approaches to understanding visual attention.

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Baroody
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Novel Approaches

Unconscious Processing of Faces

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Pitts ◽  
Mark R. Klinger
Keyword(s):  
Unconscious Processing

Audiovisual Spatial Interaction and Automatic Capture of Visual Attention: Dissociable Processes

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Vroomen ◽  
Paul Bertelson ◽  
Beatrice de Gelder
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Automatic Capture
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